The current year “could see the second-highest value in cryptocurrency crimes ever recorded,” according to a recent report issued by CipherTrace. Specifically, in the first five months of 2020 “crypto thefts, hacks, and frauds totaled $1.36 billion,” CipherTrace says. CipherTrace was founded in 2015, by Silicon Valley business people, and it was funded initially by… Read More >>
DTCC Wants to Guide Blockchain’s Future in Ops
The DTCC is embracing with qualifications Blockchain distributed ledger technology and is signaling that settlement may be “an ideal long-term target” if the new technology can mature and scale under the tutelage of the post-trade infrastructure utility provider, which says it “is uniquely positioned to help implement this technology and increase its adoption.” DTCC officials… Read More >>